2006-2011: Press Liaison Officer and PR for British Friends of Wahat al-Salam ~ Neve Shalom included broadcast production: School of Peace in Oasis of Peace.

2000-2002 & 2007: Research Assistant on democratic citizenship education, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London, Dept. Education under Prof. Sally Inman (later also at South Bank University), later in 2007 at Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London, Sociology on intercultural and inter-religious initiatives in the UK, Holland, Germany and Belgium (with Dr. Keith Harris)

2002/03: YMCA England, Diversity Project ResearchAssistant

1999 – awarded AHRB and Burton Trust Award for proposed research on Jewish and Black Militant Groups: Spent four years in total reading “Black and Jewish” nationalist militant movements of the modern era and violent resistance, both at Leeds University and UCL London with the aim for a PhD.

1999-2001: Radio Deutsche Welle, English Programmes, London Freelance Correspondent

B.A. hon. Politics (Africa) and History (Modern Third World), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Dissertation written in Sierra Leone, Freetown, on ‘Rastafarianism as Political Youth Culture.’

Nikhil Datta, 26, (l) is a teacher. He says he came because the government is not listening to teachers, nor to students. James Duckworth, 27 (r) is a composer who is fed up with the politics since the economic crisis.